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It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
The network economy has moved from change to flux. View quote
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If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die. View quote
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To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it. View quote
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Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed. View quote
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The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships. View quote
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As in other technological evolutions, relationship tech will begin its innovation in the avant garde, then work back to the familiar. View quote
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The net demands wiser customers. View quote
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Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship. View quote
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The network economy is founded on technology, but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust. View quote
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It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones. View quote
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Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy. View quote
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The problem with trying to measure productivity is that it measures only how well people can do the wrong jobs. Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do. View quote
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The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting. View quote
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. View quote
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing. View quote
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The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. View quote
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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak. View quote
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We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. View quote
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. View quote
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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. View quote
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But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions. View quote
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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. View quote
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